That’s how an English friend of mine described the latest proposals from the UK’s Law Commission to fold FOSS code into the UK’s product liability regime. Summarized by Jonathan Hall KC:
I will look into the specifics in more detail when I have a minute, and write about them here. Suffice it to say, such a rule would be intolerable to American speech and the U.S. digital economy.
I expect the GRANITE Act to be on American statute books a lot sooner than I think the Law Commission will be able to get this insane proposal onto the UK’s statute books.